The workshop will be facilitated as a full-day event.
Ahead of the workshop, the organizers will analyze attendee submissions to group them into themes and assign each theme to a specific table in the room.
We will employ a method similar to the World Cafe method to prompt discussion and elicit ideas throughout the workshop. Remote participation will be facilitated as needed with appropriate accommodations to allow for meaningful engagement.
The day will start with a short introductory session where the organizers will introduce themselves and present the goals of the workshop as well as an overview of the schedule for the day. Organizers will then deliver three short (15-minute) primer talks across industry, clinical education, research, and informatics lenses regarding the use of GenAI and Synthetic Data in interactive health systems. The purpose of this is to provide a shared foundation for the day's discussion and activities.
Break (10:30 - 11:00)
Activity #1: Surfacing Values and Design Principles (11:00-11:45)
After the introductions and setting the stage, participants will be encouraged to move to a table of their interest (with each table seating 5-6 people) where they will discuss the guiding principles or values that they believe should be embodied in interactive health systems that use GenAI and Synthetic Data. Participants will write down 2-3 general design principles and 2-3 principles within the context of the table's theme on note-cards at the table. Themes for focus are either (1) Generating & Evaluating Synthetic Health Data or (2) Synthetic Patients & Conversational Agents.
Activity #2: Co-design Session (11:45 - 12:30)
Each group (except one person who will stay back to provide context of the previous discussion) will be asked to move to the next table where they will co-design a system that respects the design principles and supports multiple users within the context of the table. Participants will use low-fidelity prototyping to think through the details of the ways we might design interactive health systems within their scenario. Participants can either choose to create a desktop walk-through (Lego and/or modeling clay and paper will be provided) or a story board to demonstrate their chosen scenario.
Lunch (12:30-14:00)
Demos (14:00 - 14:45)
Presentations and interactive demo stations given by participants based upon submissions
Memisis
Fraunhofer SMD
ConversHIVe
Black Mirror writers’ room (14:45 - 15:15)
Inspired by the prototypes created before lunch alongside live demos, we now switch to a more speculative design activity. Participants write up 'Black Mirror Episodes' following the method and framework built by Casey Fiesler in order to elicite and highlight concerns about the technology's misuse in interactive health bit.ly/blackmirrorwritersroom
Break (15:15-15:45)
Black Mirror Episode 'Screenings' and Light Mirror counters (15:45-16:45)
Participants 'screen' their Black Mirror Episodes and then engage in the production and screening of their 'Light Mirror' counter, as a means to imagine a future that seems to represent more positive outcomes around the issue their episode explored.
Wrap-up and Closing Remarks (16:45 - 17:15)
At the close of the workshop, participants will be asked to revisit their position statements from the start of the day. They will have 5 minutes to reflect on their original position statement and write a new one down.
The facilitator will then lead a final discussion to summarize what was achieved during the day and talk about the potential barriers in moving the research within this field forward. The facilitator will also ask the room what they would like the purpose of a potential community to be going forward, and if there was a preference for the tool we'd use to have a community platform so people can stay in touch with each other (Slack, Discourse, Facebook etc.). We will also collect names of those who wish to write an article outlining our insights and the research agenda developed over the course of the workshop.
Dinner (Post Workshop, Self organized and optional)